What encompasses more than $2 billion in federal tax revenues and touches the lives of everyone in the country?

Taxes.

An Inconvenient Tax is a nonpartisan feature-length documentary that chronicle the history of the income tax and the controversial issue of tax reform. It shines a light on the many ways Congress uses the tax code to achieve political goals that have nothing to do with raising revenue, as well as current proposals to fix the tax code.

Featured are interviews with Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Steve Forbes of Forbes Inc.; Joseph Thorndike of the Tax History Project; Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas; and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, among others.

What: An Inconvenient Tax
Where: Room 130 Smith Hall on the University of Delaware campus in Newark.
When: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 7 PM

More details on the documentary are available here.

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  1. Alan on April 29, 2010 2:47 pm

    Thanks for the heads up. I’ll check it out if I can get free.

  2. Russell on April 30, 2010 8:57 am

    Alan,

    If you are able to make is, let us know how it was!

    Russell

  3. Alan on May 26, 2010 12:21 pm

    Russ: I missed the film. Too much going on, sorry no report.,

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